AEC62XX Driver: Can ANYONE Help!?

[Corbett Battaile]

Turns out PART of my problems were indeed my fault.

The AEC6280M is still broke, but I managed to get the PDC20269 to work 
once I realized that I had jumpered the drives for "Master, with slave" 
rather than "Master, single drive." Doh! While I can access the drives 
using the Promise card, I do get occasional errors like:
	dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Anyone know if this warrants concern, especially given that the machines 
are intended to be file servers?


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Corbett Battaile wrote:
>
> It's a Rev B - the onboard IDE chip is marked "646U2-402." Still 
> scratching my head...
> 
> 
>> Hmmm, interesting...
>> 
>> In addition to the AEC6280M, I have two nearly identical PC cards
>> based on the PDC20269 chipset (one card is Promise-branded, the other
>> Maxtor), and neither seem to function properly in the G3/BW. It's
>> very likely that I'm screwing something up here, or that there's some
>> conflict with other hardware.
>>
>> Do you have any other PCI cards installed? What PCI slot is the
>> Promise card installed in?
>>
>> Thanks, - Corbett
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Henry A. Leinhos wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Corbett Battaile writes:
>>> 
>>> Oh well, more tinkering I suppose. I plan to try the ACard in a
>>> different machine (G4/GigE) and also plan to try a Promise-based
>>> card in the G3/BW. Failing all that, I'll probably have to resort to
>>> attaching the IDE drives to the internal ATA/33 and booting off a
>>> SCSI card.
>>
>>
>> I've got a Promise UltraDMA card in my G3/BW and it seems to work ok
>> with 2.4.20 kernels as well as the current YDL4 kernel (but you can't
>> boot with it because the card BIOS is for PCs).  I can even do MOL
>> using the Promise card.
>>
>> Henry


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Corbett Battaile <ccb at ydl.net>